Turner visited North Korea in 2005 and thought everything was just fine:
Ted Turner, just back from a visit to North Korea, declared his belief in the sincerity of North Korea and how the U.S. can trust the regime’s new deal to not build nuclear weapons. Turner rejected the “despotic” characterization of Kim Jong Il, […]
Two from the Chosun Ilbo that both slam Roh; first for misrepresenting the opinions of Koreans to the U.S. congress, and then for what is an another apparent misrepresentation from the Cheong Wa Dae spokesman concerning Roh’s conversation with some U.S. officials in regard to the investigation into Banco Delta Asia accounts. Joongang Ilbo […]
Asia Times: Beyond the rhetoric of US-South Korea unity (Don Kirk)
Yonhap: China provides N. Korea with relief goods, first shipment since missile tests
Yonhap: Congressman renews call for U.S.-N.K. direct talks
Chosun Ilbo: U.S. ‘Will not Renegotiate Troop Control Turnover’
Chosun Ilbo: S.Korean Dollar Payments to Kaesong Illegal
Dong-a Ilbo: N. Korean Clan Gets U.S. Work […]
Thaiku is a restaurant in Seattle (where I lived previously). But that’s not what’s in the news:
Thai army leaders deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a longtime ally of President Bush, using tanks and soldiers to seize the capital Tuesday night without firing a shot. The coup was the first in 15 years in a […]
From the Dong-a Ilbo: “President of the Families of Abducted and Detained in North Korea, confirmed yesterday at a press conference, ‘A former South Korean soldier surnamed Kim is currently staying in a third country. He crossed the North Korean border at around 10 p.m. on June 14. He joined the South Korean army in August 1951 at age 17. He is now 74 years old.’”
- #GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn't start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.
- #Via Reuters: “…there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea.” The Joker took over Batman’s abandoned cave.
- #From TimesOnline: "THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair." This report can't be confirmed, but it is entirely plausible.
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